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after an election year in which republican nominees serving in the united states senate introduced america to the concept of legitimate rape and the idea that sometimes god wants rapists to impregnate their victim, after an election like that and its attendant inevitable electoral defeats, republican strategists are now coaching their party to not do that anymore. they're holding training programs and seminars with pollsters, all dispensing friendly advice to republicans about how to stop talking in public about abortion and rape in ways that creep everybody out. "this is actually pretty simple. if you're about to talk about rape as anything other than a brutal and horrible crime, stop." stop yourself, congressman. deep breath. try some gum or maybe a lozenge. so that's what's happening at the national level. republicans pleading with other republicans to please for god's sake stop talking the way you talk about women and rape and abortion. that's the conversation in d.c. where outside the house of representatives republicans are out of power and part of the reason they are out of power is
after an election year in which republican nominees serving in the united states senate introduced america to the concept of legitimate rape and the idea that sometimes god wants rapists to impregnate their victim, after an election like that and its attendant inevitable electoral defeats, republican strategists are now coaching their party to not do that anymore. they're holding training programs and seminars with pollsters, all dispensing friendly advice to republicans about how to stop...
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states senate. >> yeah. seeing the blog world just spelled out. i mean, i love blogs, but as a member of the senate on this committee with this point i would not be dragging that stuff into that hearing room. steve clemons of the new america foundation, washington editor at large at "the atlantic," thank you for being here, steve. it's always great to see you. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we've got another packed show tonight, including the absolute best reason to watch the super bowl. with all due respect to the ravens and the 49ers and beyo e beyonce, we've got a better reason. lots more to come. f. [ female announcer ] stop searching and start repairing. eucerin professional repair moisturizes while actually repairing very dry skin. the end of trial and error has arrived. try a free sample at eucerinus.com. ♪ many hot dogs are within you. try pepto-bismol to-go, it's the power of pepto, but it fits in your pocket. now tell the world daniel... of pepto-bismol to-go. now tell the world daniel... all s
states senate. >> yeah. seeing the blog world just spelled out. i mean, i love blogs, but as a member of the senate on this committee with this point i would not be dragging that stuff into that hearing room. steve clemons of the new america foundation, washington editor at large at "the atlantic," thank you for being here, steve. it's always great to see you. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we've got another packed show tonight, including the absolute best reason...
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it is not the regular order of business in the united states senate. they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman ornstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of information says more about ted cruz than about anything else. i've never heard of anything like that before. but you could say that ted cruz in the senate is unprecedented too." strange times in the u.s. senate right now. strange times. more ahead. >>> i had one fundamental question that i asked myself on every vote i took, every decision i made. was the policy worthy of the men and women that we were sending into battle and surely to their deaths? i did question a surge. it wasn't an aberration to me ever. i always asked the question, is this going to be worth the sacrifice?
it is not the regular order of business in the united states senate. they never asked other defense nominees about this. the campaign to make chuck hagel reveal these reams of confidential information about private companies or else seems to have originated with the new guy, republican senator ted cruz. the guy from texas. long-time political scholar norman ornstein calls this demand by senator cruz unprecedented. he continues, "that a freshman senator would ask for that level of...
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states senate. >> yeah. seeing the blog world just spelled out. i mean, i love blogs, but as a member of the senate on this committee with this point i would not be dragging that stuff into that hearing room. steve clemons of the new america foundation, washington editor at large at "the atlantic," thank you for being here, steve. it's always great to see you. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we've got another packed show tonight, including the absolute best reason to watch the super bowl. with all due respect to the ravens and the 49ers and beyonce, we've got a better reason. lots more to come. 8th, five days later, i had a massive heart attack. bayer aspirin was the first thing the emts gave me. now, i'm on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. [ woman ] learn from my story. like say, gas station sushi. cheap is good. and sushi, good. but cheap sushi, not so good. it's like that super-low rate on not enough car insurance. pretty sket
states senate. >> yeah. seeing the blog world just spelled out. i mean, i love blogs, but as a member of the senate on this committee with this point i would not be dragging that stuff into that hearing room. steve clemons of the new america foundation, washington editor at large at "the atlantic," thank you for being here, steve. it's always great to see you. >> thanks, rachel. >> all right. we've got another packed show tonight, including the absolute best reason...
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stay with us. >>> richard mourdock wanted very badly to become a member of the united states senate. he beat out dick lugar to become the republican senate nominee in indiana. he got himself a democratic opponent that everybody seemed to think that he would beat handily. and then richard mourdock said this. >> life is that gift from god, and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> if you become pregnant from being raped, that is something god intended to happen. that was sort of the end of richard mourdock. we went on the lose a senate race that he really should have one. and now the new senator from indiana is a democrat, joe donnelly. richard mourdock's view that the government should force rape victims to give birth to their rapist child because god intervened to make sure that certain rapes resulted in the impregnating of the rape victim, that fantastic theology was in the end too much for the residents of indiana to accept. there was also todd akin from the great state of missouri who was chosen by re
stay with us. >>> richard mourdock wanted very badly to become a member of the united states senate. he beat out dick lugar to become the republican senate nominee in indiana. he got himself a democratic opponent that everybody seemed to think that he would beat handily. and then richard mourdock said this. >> life is that gift from god, and i think even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that it is something that god intended to happen. >> if you become...
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i'm running for the united states senate. this is my truck. i put a lot of miles on it during this campaign. >> i love this old truck. it's brought me closer to the people of this state. i want to speak to them as their next united states senator. >> love that truck. scott brown, man of the people. sam's club republican. everybody said scott brown is a kind republican. you would like to have a beer with. he probably would come in his truck. scott brown had the same kind of appeal for the republican party that tim pawlenty did. he was moderate. he could appeal to blue collar americans in blue states who didn't see themselves as liberal, who wanted somebody that cared about them and their sacrifices but maybe felt the republican party didn't, they felt maybe line the republican party was a bit too close to banks and business interests. scott brown, like tim pawlenty, he could talk to maybe those folks. cot brown eventually lost his senate seat to elizabeth warner and announced now the next chapter in his life. scout brown man of the people and m
i'm running for the united states senate. this is my truck. i put a lot of miles on it during this campaign. >> i love this old truck. it's brought me closer to the people of this state. i want to speak to them as their next united states senator. >> love that truck. scott brown, man of the people. sam's club republican. everybody said scott brown is a kind republican. you would like to have a beer with. he probably would come in his truck. scott brown had the same kind of appeal...
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still even in the united states senate, saxby chambliss, who got an a-plus rating from the nra and a 100% rating from the national right to life committee, he is being forced out. he is not far right enough. thank goodness for former chairman of the republican party and as always a good sport, mr. steele. nice to see you. >> it's good to see you, rachel. >> do you think there is really no imprint at all that mitt romney should have left on the republican party? they're just trying to pretend like he was a bad dream. >> well, that's just silly. and the fact of the matter is that mitt romney went through a primary process in which delegates and activists around the country voted overwhelmingly for him. and so to now sit back and say well, there may not be a romney wing of the party, but certainly as our nominee, he did -- he did have some stature. he did leave an imprint and an impression. and you can't whitewash that. you can't just say it didn't happen, it didn't exist. and if we ignore it and pretend it never did, then everything else we do will be better. so it's just silly. and it
still even in the united states senate, saxby chambliss, who got an a-plus rating from the nra and a 100% rating from the national right to life committee, he is being forced out. he is not far right enough. thank goodness for former chairman of the republican party and as always a good sport, mr. steele. nice to see you. >> it's good to see you, rachel. >> do you think there is really no imprint at all that mitt romney should have left on the republican party? they're just trying...
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people and saying this -- >> i don't know how many united states senators believe we have a coherent tragedy in iraq. i don't think we've ever had a coherent strategy. there is no strategy. this is a ping-pong game with american lives. these young men and women that we put in anbar province, in iraq, in baghdad are not beans. they're real lives. and we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us before we put 22,000 more americans into that grinder. we better be as sure as you can be. and i want every one of you every one of us, 100% of us to look in that camera, and you tell your people back home what you think. don't hide anymore, none of us. >> that's what this is about. it's about iraq. we should have known that this was john mccain's hangup on this when his questions to chuck hagel during his confirmation hearings this month could not get past the iraq war, which is over. but john mccain's obsession with it did have the silver lining of giving chuck hagel a chance to elaborate on his position on it. >> you continued on and on for months afterwards talking about what
people and saying this -- >> i don't know how many united states senators believe we have a coherent tragedy in iraq. i don't think we've ever had a coherent strategy. there is no strategy. this is a ping-pong game with american lives. these young men and women that we put in anbar province, in iraq, in baghdad are not beans. they're real lives. and we better be damn sure we know what we're doing, all of us before we put 22,000 more americans into that grinder. we better be as sure as you...
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the senate of the united states shall be composed of two senators from each state. each state no matter how many live in it get two senators and two senators only. it's not one person, one vote. it is one state, two votes. when the senate was officially constructed, when we founded the nation, the yiet was composed of 3 million people, not 300 million. today the difference between the biggest state and the smallest state, between california and wyoming is 66 to 1. i want to make it as clear how up believably ridiculous this will get. the population of connecticut of iowa, mississippi, arkansas a kansas, utah, nevada, new mexico idaho, north dakota, alaska, vermont and wyoming. combined it's 48 million. this is an unhrk eraled vent. the only kun triwith anything like that is russia and ark argentina. before you start feeling too bad and because i come from california, i do feel that male apportionment. i now live in washington, d.c. and we done have a single vote in the senate much less two. if you get me started o on that it will take way longer than two minutes. it
the senate of the united states shall be composed of two senators from each state. each state no matter how many live in it get two senators and two senators only. it's not one person, one vote. it is one state, two votes. when the senate was officially constructed, when we founded the nation, the yiet was composed of 3 million people, not 300 million. today the difference between the biggest state and the smallest state, between california and wyoming is 66 to 1. i want to make it as clear how...
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he and 21 other republican men in the united states senate voted no. then marco rubio got caught out once he started giving his speech in the easiest trap to get caught in when you have to give a response address. just minutes after the thing that you are responding to has ended, he anticipated things that he thought president obama would say in the state of the union. he wrote complaints in his own speech about things he thought president obama would say. but then when president obama did not actually say those things, mr. rubio did not adjust his speech the take out the complaints. so senator rubio in his response last night ended up complaining about things said by president obama that president obama actually did not say in the speech that everybody had just finished watching right before marco rubio got to take his turn. mr. rubio's whole windup was about how president obama had just spent his state of the union address defending big government and demanding even bigger government. this president thinks the only solution to everything is bigger go
he and 21 other republican men in the united states senate voted no. then marco rubio got caught out once he started giving his speech in the easiest trap to get caught in when you have to give a response address. just minutes after the thing that you are responding to has ended, he anticipated things that he thought president obama would say in the state of the union. he wrote complaints in his own speech about things he thought president obama would say. but then when president obama did not...
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it will go to the united states senate. ♪ kumbahyah those were the constructive bipartisan days of the clinton presidency. even if republicans were not exactly kind and welcoming toward president clinton as president, he did at least make a sort of gesture of bipartisanship in their direction. he had a bipartisan cabinet. he pointed one republican to one job in his cabinet, former republican senator william cohan he appointed to his defense secretary. and president george bush did the same thing, he pointed one democrat, norman mineta was chosen by george w. bush to serve as transportation secretary. in george w. bush's second term, norm mineta stuck around. he did not leave until close to the end. so president bush never appointed another democrat, but he did have that one democrat, norman mineta during that term in his cabinet. barack obama at this point has doubled the record of cabinet bipartisanship of his predecessors, and more that that. you'll recall that he picked bob gates to stay on as secretary of defense. so republican at defense. president obama also picked ray lahood for
it will go to the united states senate. ♪ kumbahyah those were the constructive bipartisan days of the clinton presidency. even if republicans were not exactly kind and welcoming toward president clinton as president, he did at least make a sort of gesture of bipartisanship in their direction. he had a bipartisan cabinet. he pointed one republican to one job in his cabinet, former republican senator william cohan he appointed to his defense secretary. and president george bush did the same...
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and lots of the work of the united states senate gets done there. because the building is named after senator everett dirksen of illinois who served in the 1950s and 1960s, his name is never far from anybody's mind in washington even today. the dirksen senate office building named for everett dirksen. you ever seen everett dirksen? i have always thought he was kind of amazing. isn't he? he's kind of a cross, i've always thought, fred schneider from early b52s and my favorite muppet. hi, beaker. in 196 4, the amazing specimen of republican senator everett dirksen was the leader of the republican party in the senate. republicans were in the minority in the senate. democrats were the majority there. democrats also had the white house. in 1964, of course, the president was lyndon baines johnson, became president after john f. kennedy was assassinated. although lbj had long been vocally opposed to the expansion of the vietnam war, even though he had campaigned for office saying he didn't want to send american boys thousands of miles away to fight a war t
and lots of the work of the united states senate gets done there. because the building is named after senator everett dirksen of illinois who served in the 1950s and 1960s, his name is never far from anybody's mind in washington even today. the dirksen senate office building named for everett dirksen. you ever seen everett dirksen? i have always thought he was kind of amazing. isn't he? he's kind of a cross, i've always thought, fred schneider from early b52s and my favorite muppet. hi, beaker....
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. >> it is true that the same immigration bill that passed the united states senate probably would pass in the house, too, if speaker boehner put it up for a vote. but he will not put it up for a vote. this group today set up a thanksgiving table in front of speaker boehner's house in the early hours of the morning. they set up place settings, and as one young man spoke, he said the speaker should imagine what it is like for him, this young man, to not be able to have thanksgiving with his father next week. because for the first time he is not able to do that. and the reason he is not able to do that is because his father has just been deported. this is the same group of very bold young activists who have staged other emotional protests on this issue to show that immigration is not just an issue of political calculation and economics. it is a policy that quite literally splits families apart, forcing children and parents to be forcibly separated from one another. these young people raised in the united states are reaching through the border fences at nogales to see their mothers beyond
. >> it is true that the same immigration bill that passed the united states senate probably would pass in the house, too, if speaker boehner put it up for a vote. but he will not put it up for a vote. this group today set up a thanksgiving table in front of speaker boehner's house in the early hours of the morning. they set up place settings, and as one young man spoke, he said the speaker should imagine what it is like for him, this young man, to not be able to have thanksgiving with...
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a cabinet nomination has never, ever in the history of the united states been filibustered before. but these republicans in this congress and our time decided that they would do this unprecedented thing to chuck hagel. one of the major items on next week's news calendar is that the republicans are expected to finally relent and allow chuck hagel to be confirmed. but jane mayer published something at the new yorker today that made headlines everywhere today because she turned up the way republicans have been operating in washington at the time they have been trying to stop him. to be clear, even with the unprecedented filibuster, everybody knows that chuck hagel is going to be confirmed as defense secretary. democrats have a majority in the senate. hagel has the support of every single democrat in the senate and he has the support of some republicans too. he has the votes. he has a very clear majority of the votes. he is going to be confirmed. he cannot be filibustered forever, and the republicans are not going to filibuster forever. he is going to be the new defense secretary. so t
a cabinet nomination has never, ever in the history of the united states been filibustered before. but these republicans in this congress and our time decided that they would do this unprecedented thing to chuck hagel. one of the major items on next week's news calendar is that the republicans are expected to finally relent and allow chuck hagel to be confirmed. but jane mayer published something at the new yorker today that made headlines everywhere today because she turned up the way...